SKU: BR.SON-609
Skogsgraet/Varsang
. Composed by Jean
Sibelius. Edited by Tuija
Wicklund. Linen. Complete
Works. Late-romantic;
Early modern. Complete
Works. 260 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#SON 609. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.SON-609).
ISBN
9790004802717. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Sibelius
orchestral works
rediscovered It was a
minor sensation when in
1996 the conductor Osmo
Vanska recorded a
completely unknown, more
than 20-minute-long
orchestral work by the
young Jean Sibelius in
Lahti: Skogsraet (The
Forest Nymph) had
suddenly re-emerged. But
this was no mere
rediscovery, since in his
later years, Sibelius had
graciously agreed that
his early work could be
performed in a radically
abridged form. He thus
left his score in a
rather confusing
condition. Varsang
(Spring Song), the second
work in this volume of
the Complete Edition, has
two (or even three?)
early versions, which
makes for a most
complicated source
examination. Tuija
Wicklund thus faced a
mountain of problems in
preparing the edition.
The editor's meticulous
work ultimately yielded
three complete orchestral
scores from the years
1894/95, thus from a
period in which no one
can claim that such
pieces are early works.
By this time, Sibelius
had already made a name
for himself in Finland
with his first
masterpieces Kullervo
(1892), En saga (first
version, 1892), the
Karelia Suite (1893) and
Rakastava (1894).
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